Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:00:35 -0600 From: Quintin Riis <webmaster@countrypure.net> To: Slim <jallen@aviating.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux Message-ID: <40059FE3.8030309@countrypure.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040113194758.0305be90@pop3.aviating.org>
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Slim wrote: > Where would you start to learn FreeBSD if you were not a software major, > or pro, and had no Unix background particularly? I had no trouble > getting the hang of DOS, and put off going to Windoz as long as I could > years ago. > > I've been following this list for quite a while, since before 4.7 came > out, read the web pages, and am having a hard time getting to the point > that I can do anything useful. Can anyone suggest an organized > systematic approach to learning this stuff? It's almost like learning a > foreign language with a different alphabet in that you can't learn > anything until you can make heads or tails out of something and you > can't make heads or tails out of anything until you learn. > > Maybe it's old dogs and new tricks, but can anyone suggest a good > program (no pun intended!) of learning? > > Slim > > At 12:45 PM 1/13/04, you wrote: > >> My problem with Linux was with documentation. I'm just learning *nix >> for the first time and needed a lot of concise information. I found it >> hard to pick up a Linux book and be able to figure out "what" was >> "where" and how to transfer that information to the installation I was >> using....even if I was trying the distribution that came packaged with >> the book I was reading! >> >> FreeBSD is quite the opposite. I can pretty much "trust" what I read >> to be true to what is really going on with any given BSD system I'm >> trying to work with. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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